Update on NE Holman Street Project
Posted by Ayleen C in Events, Get Involved!, Health and Wellness, Land UseFrom BikePortland.org
It’s not very often that City of Portland Bureau of Transportation staffers hear rapturous cheers during neighborhood meetings, but it happened last night when over 50 northeast Portland residents packed into the Concordia University library to learn more about the NE Holman Street bike boulevard project.
This open house was a follow-up to an initial PBOT presentation about the project last month. Like they did at that first meeting, nearby residents expressed full support for the project. Cheers erupted from the standing-room only crowd when PBOT announced plans for two specific pieces of the project; the crossing of busy Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd. and plans for a “pocket park” at Holman and NE 13th.
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Leaving the similar comment here that I left at bikeportland.org…
I would love to see some skate park elements worked into the expansion of Holman Park. We have a lot of skate boarding youth in the area – white kids, black kids, Latino kids, you name it.
They are using skate boards in this area now, why not incorporate them into the enhancement of this area?
Since we are leveraging sewer money for bike boulevards, why not capture one more bird with that stone and provide an improvement that also serves our neighborhood youth and their choice of recreation/alternative transportation.
It’s exciting to see all the kids skating in the area. Skating was a big part of my growing up and the kids that skated (I just watched) were fit, confident and active. That’s some good stuff for kids. I would love to see this project turn into something of public access that encourages active use of what was formerly a street for something other than car traffic.